Rules for the upkeep and maintenance of lodging houses.

The Government shall have power to make rules— (a) for fixing the number of persons who may be received into a lodging house and for the separate accommodation of the sexes therein; (b) for promoting cleanliness and ventilation in lodging houses and requiring the walls and ceilings thereof to be lime-washed or treated with some other suitable preparation at specified intervals; (c) with respect to the taking of precautions when any case of infectious disease occurs in a lodging house; and (d) generally for the well-ordering of the lodging houses.